| 100% | OLDSPICE | 8 | Grooming products brand with a "Smell Like a Man, Man" advertising campaign (2 wds.) |
| 42% | TAKEIT | 6 | ___ like a man: 2 wds. |
| 42% | BRITA | 5 | Brand with a “Drink like you care” ad campaign |
| 40% | LANDSEND | 8 | Clothing brand with a lighthouse logo and a geographical name: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ROLDGOLD | 8 | Pretzel brand with a rhyming name: 2 wds. |
| 40% | MARYKAY | 7 | Cosmetics brand with a direct-sales model: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ONESTOP | 7 | Like flights with a layover: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LIVINGWITH | 10 | With 28-Across, Netflix series about a man and his clone: 2 wds. |
| 39% | YESSIR | 6 | Emphatic agreement with a man: 2 wds. |
| 38% | JENIFERLEWIS | 12 | "Think Like a Man" actress who plays a grandma on "Black-ish": 2 wds. |
| 38% | NOONE | 5 | "___ knows what it's like, to be a bad man": 2 wds |
| 38% | ONICE | 5 | Like a Disney show with figure-skating characters: 2 wds. |
| 38% | INUSE | 5 | Like an airplane lavatory with a lit "Occupied" sign: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ONEWAY | 6 | Like streets with traffic going in just a single direction: 2 wds. |
| 37% | MAJORDAD | 8 | 1989-1993 CBS sitcom starring Gerald McRaney as a military man with stepkids: 2 wds. |
| 37% | CREAMSODA | 9 | Beverage with Dr. Brown's and A&W brands: 2 wds. |
| 36% | THEBYRDS | 8 | "Mr. Tambourine Man" band with a purposely misspelled animal name: 2 wds. |
| 36% | CHIPSAHOY | 9 | Nabisco chocolate chip cookie brand with a nautical-themed name and a candy-blast variety: 2 wds. |
| 36% | CHIEFKEEF | 9 | Chicago-born "I Don't Like" rapper with a rhyming name: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MEGANTHEE | 9 | With 43-Across, "Savage" rapper who was named a Revlon Global Brand Ambassador in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 35% | HAILEYBALDWIN | 13 | Model from a Hollywood acting family who cohosts 17-Across with Method Man: 2 wds. |
| 35% | LLEYTONHEWITT | 13 | 2002 Wimbledon men's singles winner whose name starts with a double letter: 2 wds. |
| 35% | KEVINPROBABLY | 13 | With 33-Across, ABC series starring Jason Ritter as a man tasked with a heavenly mission: 2 wds. |
| 35% | BILLYJOEL | 9 | Singer of the 1973 pop song "The Piano Man," which sounds like a waltz: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MILAKUNIS | 9 | "Friends With Benefits" actress, who made a guest appearance on boyfriend Ashton Kutcher's "Two And A Half Men": 2 wds. |
| 34% | LOVEACTUALLY | 12 | 2003 rom-com in which Alan Rickman played a married man flirting with his secretary: 2 wds. |
| 34% | OREO | 4 | Brand with a "Wonderfilled" ad campaign |
| 34% | EXTENDEDFAMILY | 14 | NBC sitcom starring Jon Cryer as Jim, a man raising kids with his ex-wife Julia: 2 wds. |
| 34% | FAIRYTALES | 10 | Books that depict an imaginary tale with a moral lesson like Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol": 2 wds. |
| 34% | AXE | 3 | Grooming product brand targeted at young men |